A step too far
OPINION: For years, the ironically named Dr Mike Joy has used his position at Victoria University to wage an activist-style…
Sales of tractors are up 17% on this time last year and could set a record by year-end, says NZ Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) president John Tulloch.
Bringing sheep into the NAIT (National Animal Identification and Tracing) system may be a way of getting more value out of the animals, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor claims.
Weaning is an ideal time to body condition score (BCS) ewes as it allows valuable summer feed to be partitioned into lighter ewes to give them a lift before tupping.
Agrichemicals are an addiction and pests are not the problem, claims a visiting American entomologist, Dr Jon Lundgren.
OPINION: Immigration NZ should attract immigrants to our primary sector as well as they attract overseas investors and entrepreneurs to our economy.
Your canine crusader hears that Fonterra’s current financial woes could see the dairy co-op dumping many of its key assets.
This old mutt has been a long-time critic of the multi-national, tax-dodging, political activist group Greenpeace for its sustained and never-ending attacks on the New Zealand farming sector.
The Hound would love to be a fly on the wall at the next Fonterra board meeting, when re-elected director Leonie Guiney returns to the dairy co-op’s the top table.
Your old mate was always suspicious about the way the Provincial Growth Fund and the man in charge of it – Shane Jones – would administer it.
The meat industry is short of about 2000 workers, a gap needing filling by much more than just signing up foreign workers.
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Without doubt, 2018 will be remembered as Fonterra’s annus horribilis.
China remains the key to where the global marketplace is heading in dairy prices, says Westpac economist Anne Boniface.
In a little under four months, the East Coast Farming Expo will return for a fourth year of innovation, interaction and excellence.
The Horticulture New Zealand board has elected Barry O’Neil as its new president and chairman.
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